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for Blocking Ranged attacks at Range. As noted on 6E2 59, the standard rules for Block apply to
Blocking Ranged attacks, unless the rules note otherwise or the GM makes a different ruling. The
-2 penalty for Blocking attacks made against another person is a standard Block rule, and
therefore applies to Deflection.
Page 190 — Desolidification
Q: If a character is Desolidified and has a Damage Shield, and someone with an Affects
Desolidified attack hits him with that attack in HTH Combat, does the Damage Shield affect the
attacker?
A: No — the character still needs Affects Physical World on the Damage Shield if he wants to
hurt the solid attacker.
Q: If a character has Desolidification with the Doesn’t Protect Against Damage Limitation, can
he Reflect Ranged attacks made against him?
A: Yes, assuming the attack’s Reflectable under the standard rules for that power, but the GM’s
free to rule otherwise if he foresees a game balance, dramatic sense, or special effects problem.
Q: If a character wants to use Images while Desolidified, does he have to apply the Affects
Physical World Advantage to the Images?
A: Yes. Regardless of what Sense Groups an Image does or doesn’t affect, if a Desolidified
character wants solid characters to perceive and be affected by his Images, the Images power
must have the Affects Physical World (+2) Advantage. Without that Advantage he could still
create the Images, but they’d obviously be “Desolidified” to anyone who perceived them and thus
incapable of causing any harm or having any effect.
Q: If a character uses a Constant Power on a target, and the character then becomes Desolidified,
does the Constant Power continue to affect the target?
A: No. Once a character Desolidifies, any Constant Powers he’s maintaining cease to affect the
physical world at that time. If he wanted to, he could continue paying END to keep them
functioning so that they would start to affect the target again when he (the character) becomes
solid again (thus saving himself the need to use another Attack Action and succeed with another
Attack Roll), but as long as he’s Desolidified, a character cannot affect the physical world.
However, note that the “lingering” effects of Instant Powers don’t vanish just because the
character who created them Desolidifies. Examples including continuing-effect Mental Powers
(see 6E1 191) and Entangles.